News tagged with developer program

In Cambodia, any preschool found better than none

We know that children who attend formal preschool programs in industrialized nations benefit in many ways. But what about the impact of similar programs in developing countries? A new longitudinal study carried out in Cambodia ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Apr 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

When dying, bacteria share some characteristics with higher organisms

Do bacteria, like higher organisms, have a built-in program that tells them when to die? The process of apoptosis, or cell death, is an important part of normal animal development. In a new study published March 6 in the ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Automated stress testing for Web 2.0 applications helps Web developers find programming errors

Web applications such as Google Mail, Facebook and Amazon are used every day. However, so far there are no methods to test them systematically and at low cost for malfunctions and security vulnerabilities. ...

Technology / Software

created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Academic inventors critical to American innovation

In an article published in Volume 13 Number 3 of Technology and Innovation, Proceedings of the National Academy of Inventors, Richard Maulsby, associate commissioner for innovation and development for the USPTO's Office of ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Google Dart debut sparks chatter of JavaScript coup

(PhysOrg.com) -- When the news appeared earlier this week that Google was unveiling a new programming language, Dart, for developers. tech blogs ignited with talk of how Google is staging a JavaScript coup. ...

Technology / Software

created Oct 12, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Debugger Canvas released on Devlabs

In June 2011, Microsoft released Debugger Canvas on DevLabs, the result of a year-long collaboration between Microsoft Research, the Microsoft Visual Studio product team, and Brown University. Debugger Canvas transforms how ...

Technology / Software

created Jul 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Informal daycare may harm kids' cognitive development, study finds

Formal daycare is better for a child's cognitive development than informal care by a grandparent, sibling, or family friend, according to a study of single mothers and their childcare choices published in the July issue of ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jun 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Large-scale early education linked to higher living standards and crime prevention 25 years later

High-quality early education has a strong, positive impact well into adulthood, according to research led by Arthur Reynolds, co-director of the Human Capital Research Collaborative and professor of child development, and ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jun 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Language barrier: To take advantage of multicore chips, programmers will need fundamentally new software

For decades, computer scientists tried to develop software that could automatically turn a conventional computer program -- a long sequence of instructions intended to be executed in order -- into a parallel ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 02, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 17 | with audio podcast

Discovery could lead to breakthrough for non-small cell lung cancer

Research at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center led by Charles E. Chalfant, Ph.D., associate professor of biochemistry and molecular Biology, discovered a previously unknown mechanism in non-small cell lung ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 03, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Marsupial embryo jumps ahead in development

(PhysOrg.com) -- Long a staple of nature documentaries, the somewhat bizarre development of a grub-like pink marsupial embryo outside the mother's womb is curious in another way.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 29, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

In-country OB/GYN training programs contributed to retention of doctors in Ghana, study shows

Ghanaian Obstetrics and Gynecology residents say in-country training programs contributed to their decision to remain in their home country to practice medicine, new University of Michigan research shows.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 30, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New software design technique allows programs to run faster

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new approach to software development that will allow common computer programs to run up to 20 percent faster and possibly incorporate new security ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 05, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (33) | comments 15 | with audio podcast

Gaming - step by step

(PhysOrg.com) -- For one University of Alberta professor, making the move from California to Edmonton turned out to be the first step in becoming involved with an award-winning video game.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 19, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 3

Bench to bassinet program seeks congenital heart disease treatments

What: To help speed the translation of scientific discoveries into usable treatments in congenital heart disease, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health launched the Bench ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 16, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0